Healthplanfinder site is back up and running

The Washington Healthplanfinder website, at wahealthplanfinder. org, is back in working order today after a week of ups and downs … but mostly downs.

The latest outage of the state health-insurance online exchange began Sunday during scheduled annual maintenance of the state Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) Eligibility System and continued Monday as updates on the eligibility system did not install properly and had to be reinstalled. The system is used to verify individuals’ eligibility for free or low-cost health-insurance coverage.

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HealthCare Checkup is a new blog dedicated to helping readers understand the Affordable Care Act and how the federal health-care law affects everyone – insured or not. Reporters in Seattle, Olympia, and Washington, D.C. contribute. The editors are Beth Kaiman and Mark Watanabe.

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